The Warner Archive has announced seven new titles to debut on Blu-Ray in February: A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Baby Doll (1956), San Francisco (1936), Pump Up the Volume (1990), Show Boat (1951), My Dream Is Yours (1949) and On Moonlight Bay (1951). Details on these amazing films can be found below:
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A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Street Date: February 9, 2021
Synopsis: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens’ tale of love and tumult during the French Revolution comes to the screen in a sumptuous film version by the producer famed for nurturing sprawling literary works: David O. Selznick (David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind). Ronald Colman (The Prisoner of Zenda) stars as Sydney Carton – sardonic, dissolute, a wastrel…and destined to redeem himself in an act of courageous sacrifice. “It’s a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done,” Carton muses at that defining moment. This is far, far better filmmaking too: a Golden Era marvel of uncanny performances top to bottom, eye-filling crowd scenes (the storming of the Bastille, thronged courtrooms, an eerie festival of public execution) and lasting emotional power. Revolution is in the air!
Technical Details
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NEW 2020 1080p HD master!
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Run Time: 126:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, MONO – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Features: “Audioscopiks” (MGM short); Two Classic Cartoons “Hey, Hey Fever” and “Honeyland”; Radio adaptation with Ronald Colman; Trailer
Baby Doll (1956)
Street Date: February 16, 2021
Synopsis: Times are tough for cotton miller Archie (Karl Malden), but at least he has his child bride (Carroll Baker), who’ll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof – yet never in the same bed – is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations – earning condemnation from the then-powerful Legion of Decency. They earned laurels too: four Academy Award® nominations, Golden Globe® Awards for Baker and Kazan, and a British Academy Award for Wallach. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide proclaims, “still sizzles.”
Technical Details
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NEW 2021 1080p HD master!
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Run Time: 114:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, MONO – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1, 16 X 9 Letterbox
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Product Color: BLACK & WHITE
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Features: “Baby Doll: See No Evil” vintage featurette; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Street Date: February 16, 2021
Synopsis: Romantic drama combines with humor, star-power combines with lavish spectacle and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award-winning extravaganza’s street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains “one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs” (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide).
Clark Gable plays rakish Barbary Coast kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the operagoing elite. Earning the first of nine career Best Actor Oscar® nominations, Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can’t reform Blackie, Mother Nature will.
Technical Details
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NEW 2021 1080p HD master from nitrate preservation elements!
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Run Time: 115:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, MONO – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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Product Color: BLACK & WHITE
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Features: Alternate Ending Sequence; “Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome” featurette with Liam Neeson; Two vintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks: “Cavalcade of San Francisco” and “Night Descends on Treasure Island”; Classic Cartoon “Bottles”; Theatrical re-issue trailer (HD)
Pump Up The Volume (1990)
Street Date: February 23, 2021
Synopsis: By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is a painfully shy new kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he’s Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who are unaware of his real identity), Harry becomes a hero with his fiercely funny monologues on sex, love, and rock and roll. But when he exposes the corrupt school principal, she calls in the FCC to shut Harry down. An outrageous rebel with a cause, Slater gives a brilliant performance as the reluctant hero who inspires his classmates to find their own voices of rebellion and individuality. A movie with a message, Pump Up the Volume is a raw and witty celebration of free speech that will make you laugh, make you cheer and make you think.
Technical Details
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NEW 2021 1080p HD master!
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Run Time: 102:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1, 16 X 9 Letterbox
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Product Color: COLOR
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Includes Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Show Boat (1951)
Street Date: February 23, 2021
Synopsis: From novel (by Edna Ferber) to Broadway smash (by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) to three film versions (1929, 1936, 1951) to stage revivals. Like Ol’ Man River, Show Boat just keeps rollin’ along. Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney, this 1951 version of the saga of riverboat lives and loves has glorious stars (Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion) in Technicolor® radiance, a made-from-scratch 170-foot paddle wheeler, timeless songs and an equally timeless outcry against racial bigotry. “This was music that would outlast Kern’s day and mine,” Ferber said in recalling her first reaction to hearing “Ol’ Man River.” She was right as rain.
Technical Details
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NEW 2021 1080p HD master from 4K Scan of original Technicolor negatives!
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Run Time: 108:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 STEREO – English, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Original Mono Theatrical Track: English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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Product Color: COLOR
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Features: Commentary by Director George Sidney; “Till the Clouds Roll By – Show Boat” (1946) Sequence; “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” and “Bill” Ava Gardner Audio-only Outtakes; Lux Radio Theater Broadcast (2/11/1952); Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Street Date: February 23, 2021
Synopsis: Talent agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) is giving 100% to earn his 10%. He walks away from his arrogant singing star (Lee Bowman) and scrambles to discover another who will shine even brighter. He finds effervescent songstress Martha Gibson. Doris Day plays Martha. Think she has a chance? During the shooting of Day’s first film (Romance on the High Seas), director Michael Curtiz was sure the sparkling newcomer had much more than a chance and set the wheels in motion for My Dream Is Yours. Curtiz dots his film with authentic Hollywood locales (including the fabled Schwab’s Pharmacy). And Bugs Bunny himself hops into a dream sequence. Welcome to the Dream Factory. Make it yours.
Technical Details
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NEW 2020 1080p HD master!
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Run Time: 101:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: MONO – English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Features: Vintage Joe McDoakes Comedy Short “So You Want to be An Actor”; “The Grass is Always Greener” short subject; Classic Cartoon “A Ham in a Role”; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Street Date: February 23, 2021
Synopsis: Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful, romantic Midwestern American life like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin’, croonin’ and swoonin’ On Moonlight Bay, based on Booth Tarkington’s Penrod stories. “Try not to walk like a first baseman,” Mama (Rosemary DeCamp) tells tomboy Marjorie (Day) as she prepares to date college man Bill (MacRae). The advice takes. The lovebirds hear wedding bells ahead, just as soon as Bill gets his sheepskin. But World War I rages “over there.” And Papa (Leon Ames) rages at home after a flap with his prospective son-in-law. Will harmony return to this Hoosier home? Surely Day and MacRae will make musical harmony. And On Moonlight Bay will have you sailing along.
Technical Details
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NEW 2020 1080p HD master from 4K scan of Original Technicolor Negatives!
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Run Time: 95:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: MONO – English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Features: “Let’s Sing a Song About the Moonlight” Vintage Short; Classic Cartoon “A Hound for Trouble”; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Dillon is most comfortable sitting around in a theatre all day watching both big budget and independent movies.
